It should also be of note that while the United States might be within range, the effectiveness of North Korea's weapons are unlikely to land on target or with any real accuracy; let alone a reasonable yield. Now, this does not render the regime a non-threat, but people are being hysterical about this. "Get your disaster kits." is a statement that is more hyperbole than fact, this is of course ignoring that one should always have said thing ready, but the point is, is that Americans would likely not be affected directly by such an attack - just that it happened at all.

For the prospects of a Third World War, North Korean hostility [i]would[/i] result in that very "fire and fury". There would be no escaping the reality that almost the entire world would, in some way, come after the regime.

If [i]anyone[/i] should be legitimately concerned it should be the North Koreans, for the actions that led here, and then South Korea and Japan due to their proximity to their enemy and that their ballistic defense is not nearly as in-depth as the United States. The hardline stance presented by the President of the United States is just an aspect of nuclear deterrence. Nothing new to the game and highly effective; North Korea is well aware of the consequences as is the public. People just tend to forget, and or not know, how the tenants of it function.